The Wire Returns / Malcom Gladwell

<a href="/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=2">Link back to the article</a>.<br /> <font size=1>(Note: This is original version of article. It may have been edited. Click on link above for most recent version.)</font>A bit of quick business, as the Wire has been oh so thankfully renewed
for a fourth season.&nbsp; Apparently it will focus more on the mayoral
race and the rising power of Mario, the remaining major drug
dealer.&nbsp; It's going to be a year until it is seen again, but it
will be well worth the wait.<br />
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On another note, I have become increasingly fascinated by the writing of <a href="http://www.gladwell.com" target="_self">Malcolm Gladwell</a>.&nbsp; I just recently finished reading his book, <strong>Tipping Point </strong>- which I found fascinating and have reserved his recent release, <strong>Blink</strong>.&nbsp; I then was listening to a pretty decent interview on this recent book over at <a href="http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail419.html" target="_self">IT Conversations</a>.&nbsp; If you have a few mintues, try reading <a href="http://gladwell.com/2002/2002_08_05_a_face.htm" target="_self">this article</a> on his site for a quick look into what he writes and talks about.<br /> I could write pages about his ideas, but I should be sleeping. Why does
work have to so consistently the way of leading an interesting
life?&nbsp; I would love for nothing more than to expand my mind&nbsp;
- in the reading way, not the Timothy Leary way, but instead...&nbsp;
never mind.&nbsp; Rant aborted, for now.&nbsp; Unfortunately, such
interesting reading also manages to completely sap my free time so that
I never get anything of substance accomplished - i.e.&nbsp; taxes,
website stuff, computer building, web-hosting credit card processing
.&nbsp; So it goes.&nbsp; Po-to-weet!

isn't that po-to-weet thing from slaughterhouse 5?

So is "so it goes". He writes "so it goes" after anyone dies, and Po-to-weet after the Dresden firebombing. It's kind of like shrugging your shoulders after experiencing something awful because there's nothing you can do about it. It's one of my favorite books. Also try Mother Night by Vonnegut. It was very thought provoking, and not nearly as weird as his other stuff, which I like as well.

P.S. Villanova got jobbed on that travelling call.

it's alright. i'm just looking forward to next year when we'll at least make it to the final four, and because of which, everything at villanova outside of basketball will be stopped and be replaced with non-stop drunken riots. faculty included.

ps - new favorite song "new york city" by they might be giants

I heartily agree. Even though TMBG didn't write that song, it is one of their best. Also see 'Til My Head Falls Off on the same Factory Showroom album and Birdhouse in Your Soul off of Flood.

P.S. Last week's The Simpsons ended with Istanbul, Not Constantinople - which they also didn't write.